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Lisa Baldez, Council
Dartmouth College

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Lisa Baldez, Dartmouth College
Council 2006-08

Lisa Baldez is Associate Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. Prior to her appointment at Dartmouth, she taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology.  She holds a B.A. in politics from Princeton University (1986) and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego (1997). She won the Linda B. and Kendrick R. Wilson III 1969 Fellowship in recognition of excellence in teaching and research.

 Her research examines the ways in which gender is relevant to politics, both in Latin America and the U.S.  She has worked on legislative politics, budgetary policy, social movements and judicial politics. She is the author of Why Women Protest: Women’s Movements in Chile (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Her article, "Elected Bodies: Gender Quotas for Female Legislative Candidates in Mexico," (Legislative Studies Quarterly 2004) won Best Article from the Comparative Democratization Section of the APSA. She has published articles in American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, and The Journal of Legal Studies.

 She is a founding editor, with Karen Beckwith, of Politics & Gender, the journal of the Women and Politics Research Section of the APSA and published by Cambridge University Press. She serves on the APSA Publications Committee and was a member of the Executive Board of the Women and Politics Research Section. She has served as President of the Midwest Women’s Caucus, a member of the Nominating Committee for the MPSA, and Chair of Gender and Politics Section for the Midwest meeting.